VisNA Lab Awarded NSF Grant
We are delighted to announce that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a grant to Dr. Vessel and co-PI Michael Grossberg for their project entitled “Combining category learning with…
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Edward Vessel selected as 2026 Cal Academy Osher Fellow
Dr. Vessel has been selected as a 2026 Osher Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences (https://www.calacademy.org/osher-fellows) for a project with Indre Viskontas and Cal Academy. The project will investigate…
Congrats to Spring 2025 Graduates
Congrats to the lab’s Spring 2025 Graduates! Andrew Frankel and Ashley Gurung both graduated from the Grad Center’s Cognitive Neuroscience Master’s program, and Aubrey Valdez graduated from the CCNY Psychology…
Victor Omilabu Poster Presentation @ EPA 2025
In March, Victor Omilabu presented a poster on his work at the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) 2025 annual meeting in NYC. Victor’s poster detailed the analysis work he’s done of…
VisNA Lab @ APA Division 10 Annual Meeting
This past March, the VisNA Lab showed up in force at the 2nd annual APA Division 10 conference on the Psychology of the Arts, Creativity and Aesthetics. The conference was…
Dr. Vessel Elected Secretary General of IAEA
At the beginning of the year, the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) has elected lab PI Edward Vessel as its next Secretary General. The term is for two years.…
Edwarné Woodley-Gift Receives ORCA Fellowship
Edwarné Woodley-Gift, a CCNY Psychology and Biology double major, has been awarded a fellowship from ORCA (Opportunities in Research and Creative Arts) to do research in the VisNA Lab over…
New Paper out in PNAS
New paper alert! We’re very excited to announce that a new paper from the lab is out today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Conwell, C., Graham, D.,…
VisNA Lab Welcomes 4 New Members
We are very excited to welcome three new Master’s students and a new undergraduate assistant to the lab! August Miller is pursuing a Master’s in Cognitive Neuroscience at the GC…
Edward Vessel Receives Junior Faculty Research Award
Dr. Vessel has been awarded a 2025 CUNY Junior Faculty Research Award in Science and Engineering (JFRASE). This award aims to identify and advance the careers of talented untenured faculty…
